# Kitchen Counters

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**Created:** [May 13, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/kitchen-counters/204976 "2010-05-13T10:02:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/kitchen-counters/204976/24 "2010-05-19T18:52:33Z")

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> [@CANADIAN TICKET???](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/canadian-ticket/42281/23):
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> You can make drop fronts so that you have the look of a thick top w/ less weight. You’re right on your weight estimate.
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> Keep melamine for your forms. Seal the joints w/ silicone to keep the water in the concrete (stronger cure since it needs it for hydration) and use a sawzall w/ the blade removed to vibrate your forms. Keep your forms in a cool area and keep dampened burlap on your concrete for like a week or so to insure that the concrete doesn’t curl (it WILL curl. I’ve seen slabs curl up on the ends almost 1.5" if they cure too fast. Hydration creates heat and concrete shrinks).

dude! I never thought of the sawsall! I was using a palm sander but my sawsall is much more powerful. Also, I think I’m going to have someone vibrating the form as I pour the concrete in. During my testing I was pouring all 2" and then trying to vibrate it. I was getting some bubbles out, but not everything on the sides especially. I have been using the CounterTop mix from quikrete and it has worked pretty well for me. It has a bunch of latex additives that make it screed and trowel really weird but it lays dead flat at the bottom of the form and pretty much self-levels.

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